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Dwarf Fortress - Chaosfortunes: Year 4 (anyone can still join)
Malek Deneith:
--- Quote ---A standing army is not a viable solution to Necrohazards
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It's the only dwarfy solution to Necrohazards! It's not Dwarf Fortherss if you're not fighting off eldritch abominations every five minutes. :P
RSO:
Magma is the dwarfy solution to Necrohazards. Unfortunately, we don't have magma yet, so the atom smasher will have to do. Using an army for it is a zombie apocalypse waiting to happen. I think you're being very optimistic when you assume they'll stay dead for five minutes.
Download up at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8326635/region1_year2.rar. I'm not sure what my bandwidth cap is, but I hope it's enough!
Klear:
OK, I finally got to lodaing it up... I'll try to finish my run today or tomorrow.
In the meantime, is there anyone who would like to be the third?
Edit:
I only had time to play through one month, but I can post the beginning of the report. More of it tomorrow.
The Chaosfortunes Chronicle
by
Klearol Rulolon
1st Granite, 202
Even though I still count as one of the newcomers here in Chaosfortunes, having arrived in the early autumn, it already feels like home, even though it's little more than a cursed frozen hellhole. I spoke with Erib, the leader of this expedition, about the terrible state of records, and her reaction was a simple "take care of it". And just like that I became the first chronicler of this small outpost. Strangely enough, my new new responsibilities include those of a manager, which means I will have to "take care" of pretty much everything from now on. Well, why not? But first of all I need a private office. I'm writing this sitting on the floor of what will once be our great meeting hall.
5th Granite, 202
I can't stand those damn zombified cows we keep in a pit near the entrance and nobody is brave enough to build doors that would close the pit. I tried to wall the pit off myself while waiting for my meager office to be build, but the doors that were to be placed there are in the way and I'm NOT going so close to the edge to remove them. At least I managed to erect one part of the wall.
Now that my office is done, I am finally able to see the state of our records, and the state is utter chaos. I have no idea if we even have enough to drink. Somebody just scribbled "290?" there. Looks like I have a lot of work in front of me, and so I declared that from now on I won't be hauling rocks and other things around and to my surprise everybody accepted it. Maybe it was a mistake to say that I need only a meager office...
9th Granite, 202
I still have to figure out the exact value of all we have accomplished here so far (not much, I imagine), but for the first time we have exact knowledge of our stockpiles and there's not a whole lot to eat or drink. The numbers aren't dangerously low, but we'll need a whole lot more booze and maybe some food as well.
Construction of our drawbridge keeps getting suspended, since the other mason we have here, while clearly my superior in terms of craft, insists on checking the state of the zombies with each trip to the workplace which invariably results in him abandoning work in horror. I've ordered the pit walled off, even if it means a nasty wall protruding from an otherwise smooth and straight hallway.
25th Granite, 202
Exactly one week ago, our cook Inod Deleretes started a party that is still going on. The reason for the party revealed itself right now, when she suddenly gave birth to little Adil, the first dwarf to be born in Chaosfortunes! The father is our armorer, Ustuth, who I count as a friend, though I may reconsider this friendship, since nobody bothered to invite me to the party.
25th Granite, continued
As if it wasn't enough news for one day, some migrants arrived just now, just as I was thinking that maybe we could afford to build a bedroom for everyone. The problem is, this migration wave more than doubled our population! There's no way we can get enough beds, so the old dormitory will have to suffice for everybody. Except me. Oh, and none of the migrants seem to be particularly good at anything. At least it's enough bodies to form a militia, when the time comes. Some of the migrants brought animals with them. Too bad. Into the crusher with them.
RSO:
If there's no other takers, I could return for a second term.
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--- Quote ---Chronicler Rulolon,
I received a complaint from one of our latest immigrants that her child's treasured pet was among the animals disposed of. I explained to her the imperative need for caution to prevent her pet from joining the walking dead, but she was adamant that her child deserved a chance to prove responsibility by feeding and caring for the animal.
While I cannot make any public statements to your defense, know that I support your caution. If I felt I could do so without causing a riot, I would enact an edict banning children from keeping pets. While it is only vital that strays and starving animals be disposed of, any animal whose stray/pet status is unclear, as well as any pet that is not properly cared for, should be terminated immediately. Given a chance, I'm sure some of these migrants would hide undead from us if it meant they could keep their "pets."
Erib Tunnecik
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Klear:
--- Quote from: RSO on February 23, 2012, 18:54 ---If there's no other takers, I could return for a second term.
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I would much rather if other people joined, but if nobody else comes forth, you are of course welcome to play the third year.
Also, I didn't actually atomize any pets, just the strays, but one of the children that came this year did bring a pet goat kid, so I guess I'll atomize it just to make your post canon =) Hopefully it won't lead to too much fun.
Edit: Also, I guess we'll need an extensive pet cemetary here, just in case, something I never bothered with before... I hope that buried remains stay dead.
Edit 2: BTW, I didn't want to bother to install graphics even though previously I was always playing with mayday using the lazy newb pack... and what do you know? ASCII doesn't bother me at all. In fact, it looks almost the same as the tileset to me =)
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